On 2 June 2017 at 17:13, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
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> The (ridiculous) story of the Keyboard Component was legendary. The ECS
> keyboard variant can barely be considered functional even by the standards
> of the time, though I guess it at least looks decent compared to an
> Aquarius
> and t
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Subject: Re: I hadn't made the connection before
> I sold a bare CP1600 chip about a year ago to a collector. "Odd" is an
> understatement. A 10-bit wide instruction word, with the
On 06/02/2017 09:37 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> But that was because it has memory-mapped I/O, no? On the other hand
> the decles were weird and it has a lot of instructions that were
> removed.
GI made a 10-bit wide ROM for program storage, as I recall. I think the
10-bit instruction word was the
On 6/2/2017 11:26 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 06/02/2017 07:55 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
A very odd version of the PDP-11
I did some programming on it for GI in the late 70's using their
GIMINI development system and cross-development tools on their Sigma
9.
I sold a bare CP160
> I sold a bare CP1600 chip about a year ago to a collector. "Odd" is an
> understatement. A 10-bit wide instruction word, with the upper 6 bits of
> the opcode unused. Loading a 16-bit address took three words.
>
> Also, slow, very slow, with no I/O instructions.
But that was because it has
On 06/02/2017 07:55 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> A very odd version of the PDP-11
>
> I did some programming on it for GI in the late 70's using their
> GIMINI development system and cross-development tools on their Sigma
> 9.
I sold a bare CP1600 chip about a year ago to a collector.
> I was looking at an old GI catalog and casually noting the CP1610 that was
> most of a PDP11 processor. I did some more web surfing and noticed that the
> Intellivision game machine used this chip. It just never dawned on me that
> they used this processor.
>
> I see that one could even get a ke
On 6/2/17 7:20 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> the CP1610 that was most of a PDP11 processor.
A very odd version of the PDP-11
I did some programming on it for GI in the late 70's
using their GIMINI development system and cross-development
tools on their Sigma 9.
I was looking at an old GI catalog and casually noting the CP1610 that was most
of a PDP11 processor. I did some more web surfing and noticed that the
Intellivision game machine used this chip. It just never dawned on me that they
used this processor.
I see that one could even get a keyboard fo
